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Sri Lanka vs United States: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Sri Lanka
4.3%
in 2024
United States
4.3%
in 2025
Sri Lanka rank
118th
United States rank
119th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • United States
2.557.51012.515196019922025

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 4.3% against 4.3% in United States, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1981 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 118th and United States ranks 119th of 185 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit
%
Source
Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.